Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1993, 12:45 PM CST for Hopkins County, McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1993, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1993, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 442 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 498 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 6:49 AM CST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Feb 21, 9:48 AM CST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
INZALL-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1030 AM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FAR NORTHERN INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON... MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON OVER FAR NORTH INDIANA. DRIVING AT REDUCED SPEED IS THE SMART THING TO DO. ALSO ALLOWING A GREATER DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE VEHICLE IN FRONT OF YOU WILL MAKE FOR A SAFER TRIP. RAIN OR FREEZING RAIN IN FAR NORTH INDIANA WILL BECOME MIXED WITH SLEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN POSSIBLY CHANGE TO SNOW TOWARDS EVENING ...AS LOW PRESSURE OVER MISSOURI MOVES TO NEAR THE INDIANA AND MICHIGAN BORDER BY EVENING.j DRIVING CONDITIONS IN THIS PART OF THE STATE WILL REMAIN HAZARDOUS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. STEIGERWALDT ...CORRECTED TO CHANGE THE MESSAGE TYPE...
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 11:33 AM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
INZALL-211900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1230 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1993 ...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR NORTHERN INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON...AND A DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR THE REST OF THE STATE FOR THIS AFTERNOON... MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE. DRIVING AT REDUCED SPEED MAY ENSURE THAT YOU WILL ARRIVE AT YOUR DESTINATION SAFELY. ALSO ALLOWING A GREATER DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE VEHICLE IN FRONT OF YOU WILL MAKE FOR A SAFER TRIP. EARLY THIS AFTERNOON FREEZING DRIZZLE WAS OCCURRING OVER THE FAR NORTH PART OF THE STATE. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BECOME MIXED WITH SLEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN POSSIBLY CHANGE TO SNOW TOWARDS EVENING ...AS LOW PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF ILLINOIS MOVES TO NORTHERN INDIANA. DENSE FOG AND DRIZZLE WAS OCCURRING OVER MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. HVISIBILITIES WERE NEAR ZERO IN SOME PLACES. THE VISIBILITY AT EVANSVILLE HOWEVER HAD IMPROVED TO 4 MILES AROUND NOON...AND MAY STAY UP FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. STEIGERWALDT
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 12:41 PM CST, 4 minutes before
INZ000-220000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 140 PM EST SUN FEB 21 1992 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA...AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA ...EAST OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE TO 10 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS...AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS TO 5 MILES NORTH OF LAWRENCEBURG. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... NORTH VERNON...LAWRENCEBURG...NEW ALBANY...MADISON AND TELL CITY. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. STEIGERWALDT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 1:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Butler | 38 min |
| Feb 21, 1:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warren | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 2:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Grayson | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Allen, Barren | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.